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S.Africa Cuts Interest Rate For First Time In Five Years
South Africa's central bank slashed its key interest rate for the first time in five years Thursday, as the continent's...
Citigroup Picks Frankfurt As New EU Hub After Brexit
Citigroup has picked Frankfurt as its headquarters for broker-dealer duties for EU countries after Brexit, a Citigroup...
Down the Drain? The Economic Costs of Illicit Financial Flows In Africa’s Extractive Sector [Article]
Resource-rich African countries are facing significant economic headwinds. Nigeria, Africa’s largest oil producer,...
GN Re Shows Impressive Growth
GN Reinsurance Company has emerged as a profitable Reinsurer by posting an underwriting profit of GH¢2.4 million in...
Morgan Stanley To Shift Jobs To Frankfurt Due To Brexit
Morgan Stanley has picked Frankfurt as a new temporary hub to operate in the European Union when Brexit takes effect, a...
Netanyahu Slams EU’s ‘crazy’ Israel Policy
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday denounced the EU's political demands on Israel as "absolutely crazy", in...
Israel Denounces EU Criticism As ‘anomaly’
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday denounced Brussels' repeated criticism of Israel as an "anomaly" and...
GN Bank Wins Award
GN Bank has been adjudged the best growing bank at the 16th Edition of the Ghana Banking Awards (GBA) held in Accra...
What Our Workers Need Is Living Wages
THE government last week announced a new national daily minimum wage (NDMW) of GH¢9.68. This, according to the...
Bernard Avle’s Question On Borrowing and How Dr Bawumia Answered It
Following Tuesday’s media encounter by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, there is a discussion on social media...
South Africa Ex-Finance Minister Calls For Zuma To Go
South Africa's respected former finance minister Pravin Gordhan called Tuesday for President Jacob Zuma to resign,...
Israel PM Hails Hungary Fight Against Anti-Semitism
Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday praised Budapest for "standing up for" the Jewish state, at talks with...
Goldman Sachs Profits Flat Amid Weak Trading Results
Global financial services giant Goldman Sachs reported flat second-quarter earnings Tuesday as gains in investment...
Higher Interest Rates Boost Bank of America Earnings
Bank of America reported higher second-quarter earnings Tuesday, thanks to a boost in total loans and the benefit of...
Market Returns To Rise Further This Week
Trading activity in terms of volumes on the stock market increased by 86.97% in the week under review as volumes of...
Has the US Apologised Yet? (2)
When Candidate Trump tweeted that insult on blacks, he was ignorant of the fact that it is a black man, Jan Ernst...
‘Spiritual Brothers’ Netanyahu, Orban Meet In Budapest
Israeli premier Benjamin Netanyahu is in Budapest Tuesday for talks with Hungarian counterpart Viktor Orban, who hopes...
US Arrests British Traders Over Forex Manipulation
Three British former foreign exchange traders for major banks have surrendered to US authorities to face criminal...
Gov’t Misses Out On Revenue Targets For First 4 Months of 2017
Government ended the first four months of the year missing out on its revenue target, latest fiscal data covering...